SAN ANTONIO - H-E-B is planning to tear down its oldest continuously operating store in San Antonio to make way for a new, high-tech supermarket. The nearly 70-year-old store on Nogalitos St. just north of Hwy. 90 was first opened in 1945.

The new store that will occupy the same space will be on two floors and will use escalators to carry customers and their shopping carts up and down and to a parking area below.

H-E-B says it will close the old store in May 2014 and open the new supermarket by this time next year.